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@VoteLewko I dont actually understand what she is complaining about here. If it was only ever a 2 week stint, why does she care if an article says she won't be backed by ARN?

In another public meltdown, Abbie Chatfield has slammed the media referring to "previously reputable sources". Sorry Abbie. They are still reputable. Sorry they're simply calling you out. Don't like it? Sue them, the way your friend Heath Kelley sued you. You were the one who said you would not "platform Zionists" on your podcast (meaning the absolute majority of Jews). You are the one who defamed other people. And you are the one who has public meltdowns and acts in this emotionally unstable and wildly indiscreet manner. ARN has dodged a huge bullet here.

I thought most people knew about town camps/missions It's been like that for as long as I can remember, though when i was young and visited, you could always tell the elders homes, clean homes, lawns mowed, gardens, and pride, no parties. I never lived on the mish When I was little, I hated the parties, I hated being in the cars driven by drunks, and I hated being dragged out of bed to be taken to another persons house party put on a strange bed. I hated having to hug the many aunties and uncles goodnight. I would lay in bed listening to them partying, playing music, laughing, coming near my bedroom, then the music got turned down, the talking got louder, people would start to leave when the fighting started and thats when i knew what was coming and hid under my bed shaking and sobbing. Luckily, I survived. That's not an exaggeration. Kumanjayi little baby, my heart is broken for her. This has to stop

He doesn't need to be. You said taking 9 years to complete a degree is the definition of privilege. I'd say the girl who is the daughter of multi millionaire media personalities, and got an interview with the PM because of her parents, has more privilege than someone who took 9 years to complete a degree.

@DownunderEcho @DrewPavlou Is Drew a single mum?

“Gen Z meet the Prime Minister” Great to see Gen Z media success stories like this. Billi FitzSimmons had it tough growing up with Lisa Wilkinson as her Mum and Pete FitzSimmons as her Dad. That’s a tough battler position to be in when starting out in Aussie media.

@AndersenJerome @DrewPavlou Really? I know a single mum who took 8 years to complete a degree because she also had to juggle paying bills and raising her children after leaving an abusive relationship. I'll let her know that she is actually privileged to have taken so long to finish her degree.

@DownunderEcho @DrewPavlou Taking 9 years to finish a Bachelor of Arts is the definition of privilege LMAO

@JacintaAllanMP Fuck you're quick with press releases when it suits you. Maybe you should send your CFMEU thugs to sort out the people who boo.

Statement from the Premier.

@realRick_AUS Who'd seriously join the military now. Just to be sent to countries where the people they want you to fight are indistinguishable between civilians and militants. Then once the fighting is done start pursuing you for prosecution.

You shouldn’t have to be sent off to die for this country Only to have to come back and listen to politicians and activists spew their garbage.

@JackMehoughJr @realRick_AUS And call the adding of gun shots to make you look like a war criminal an "editing error."

@realRick_AUS The best part is, that if you don't die, the ABC and CH9 will find ways to prosecute you...

@GreensAU2 Not an Australian flag in sight either on the wall or the desk. Imagine migrating to a country just so you can sit in their parliament so you can shit all over it.

> worth millions > owns four houses and plans to subdivide one of them into three luxury townhouses. > also owns a block of land in Pakistan. > makes a $250,000 salary, plus more than $100,000 a year in rental income from her investments, plus 15% superannuation > spends over $500,000 annually in allowances, including luxury travel, billed to taxpayers. You're supposed to vote for her so she can fight the rich

@AndersenJerome @DrewPavlou Yes hasn't had to resort to grift or grind because she comes from privilege. Has a job is a stretch.

@DrewPavlou She has a job and hasn't had to resort to grift on Twitter and gofundme. Maybe you shouldn't have taken 9 years to get a Bachelor of Arts?

Nothing in the comment was racist. Perhaps you should learn the definition of words you like to throw around. But if we are going to start "organising a big boat to ship people back to the old country" when that happens do we ship you back to the stone age and take all modern developments with us?

@hsanbeaumont @Melbourne_says RACISTS should pack up & leave. Aboriginal diggers did not fight for people like you to come along & spit on our grandchildren. You have no shame. No place for RACISTS in Australia. Time to organise a big boat & ship you back to the old country.

In the face of the booing at the ANZAC day dawn services in both Sydney and Melbourne today, Uncle Ray Minniecon and Uncle Mark Brown stood proud and didn't even flinch. This is what real pride looks like. 👇🏼

It may be so but there have been risks about independence and politicisation of the judiciary going back to federation. Judges, as I understand, are appointed entirely at the discretion of the executive and budgets come from the same. I think it would be ignorant to assume that within the halls of our highest level of politics, and the judiciary, that there wouldnt be influence among each other.

@vishva47 @Ryandally08 I understand that but the executive, rarely. if ever interfere with the Judiciary. That would lead to dictatorship. You should educate yourself more on the Westminster system.

#BREAKING Australia’s most decorated living war hero, Ben Roberts Smith, was “overwhelmed” by well wishers at the Anzac Day Dawn Service this morning in Currumbin, QLD. “I never thought about not coming” “I was always going to be here” “He is absolutely welcome to any service that he chooses to join” Major General Day said on Friday. The Albanese Government’s persecution of this man is a national disgrace.

@emilysnowau @vmainard @plebcapital If we are going to start having the government put people on disability packages for brushing hair, and packing a school bag, how about we just go all in and start letting government dictate who can breed or not. Would remove this issue entirely.

@DownunderEcho @vmainard @plebcapital Sounds like the mother has cognitive issues herself. These children may not have been getting to school at all. Sounds like good support for those children if it means getting them to school.

@grok @VoteLewko Because it isn't a genocide is it Grok? That's why this many medical students were able to graduate.

No. In every recognized genocide—the Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, Rwandan Genocide, Cambodian Genocide—targeted groups saw their universities, hospitals, and professional training systematically destroyed or banned. No documented cases exist of hundreds of medical graduates emerging from the victim population *during* the killings. This Gaza graduation stands out as an anomaly relative to those historical precedents.

Hi @grok. Is there a single recorded genocide in history where hundreds of medical graduates emerged from the target population during the genocide?

@MKWalkerII @6EQUJ5wow @VoteLewko Sense prevailed then. Mind blowing it was even a thing in the first place.

@DownunderEcho @6EQUJ5wow @VoteLewko It was Big W online but they removed them due to the backlash.

Does anyone else think this Anzac Day feels different?

@LegendaryLFG @plebcapital The ipad is an NDIS funded self regulation device. Taking an ipad would be a serious human rights violation.

@plebcapital I bet the kids all have ipads and eat nothing but processed garbage.

@vmainard @plebcapital And you're a stupid asshole if you think this should be legitimate under the NDIS.

How do you know that they don't have disabilities? Do you know them personally? These are things that parents need help with and the NDIS provide funding for. It is legitimate claim. It no uncommon for more than one family member to have a disability. You are just being a judgemental asshole.

@plebcapital What a fucking joke. "Hey I suffer with being a lazy cunt please don't take my benefits."

@6EQUJ5wow @VoteLewko You've got to be kidding. Which store is this?

@VoteLewko Yep

I can’t know whether it is ignorance, vanity, or the old imperial reflex in a brand new outfit , but I increasingly get the impression that many in the West would sooner see their own civilisation abase itself, Trump publicly humiliated, and the Iranian people left to endure clerical totalitarianism, than admit that those who actually live under such a regime may understand it rather better than those who moralise about it from a safe distance. What is striking is that when I speak to my Iranian friends, of whom I seem to have an unusual number, they are overwhelmingly on Trump’s side, or at the very least on the side of anything that might weaken the theocratic machine that rules them. Yet many Westerners, even some of my close friends , endlessly congratulate themselves on their self assumed superior moral refinement, presume to instruct these same Iranians on what is supposedly best for Iran and the world . One even posted that Iran had a sovereign right to an atomic bomb ? The conceit is astonishing. It is, in truth, an old colonial instinct: the urge to lecture a people about their own condition, to deny them authority over their own suffering, and to assume that righteousness belongs by natural right to the distant observer. The same impulse extends itself to the Arab majority of the region as well, who are also treated less as political adults than as objects upon which Western virtue may be theatrically displayed. The instinct is also old , the westerner civiliser . Beneath all the language of morality lies the same old assumption, namely that the Westerner is wiser, purer, and more entitled to judge than the people who must actually bear the consequences.

@Nero Can someone catch me up here? I remember when Lauren came to Australia and ran a thing on mosques, got spoken to by police and then she sorta just disappeared. What happened?

We didn’t try